Archives - 20 July 2014, Sunday

Dell has become the latest company to accept Bitcoin, the company posted on their website they will now be accepting Bitcoin and providing a 10 % discount on an AlienWare purchase to those using Bitcoin as their payment option (up to $150). From their website: Now you can buy digital ...

Germany-based digital currency bitcoin ATM and point-of-sale (POS) solution provider BitXatm has announced a new partnership that will find the company shipping 1,000 units to the US in a bid to build the country’s largest bitcoin ATM network. For the initiative, BitXatm will partner ...

Trends play an important role in trading, giving traders a chance to use patterns in the price data to make decisions based on more than simple rises and falls, or worse, gut instinct. But how does one identify and draw a trend on a chart? When looking at bitcoin price charts like the...

Raise Cache via David Tisch Fred Wilson If you still don't understand what the deal with Bitcoin is, don't worry: Even it's biggest boosters admit it is still probably still too early to be useful to the mainstream. In a talk this week sponsored by the NYC Foundation for Computer Scie...

Bitcoin’s potential to succeed in Africa is widely recognized within the industry. It’s capable of transforming the way we send remittances to the continent and giving the unbanked easy access to money quickly and freely. It’s an alternative currency for anyone, but especially useful ...

The upshot of the US government leak is that the people whose emails were leaked were targeted by scammers, one of whom succeeded in dramatic style. Sam Lee of of bitcoin fund Bitcoins Reserve received an email claiming to be from a media company. The attached document was supposedly ...

In my last column we talked about a particularly nasty form of “ransomware” that had started spreading toward the end of last year called Cryptolocker. Cryptolocker is a virus that scans your computer and holds your files “ransom” in exchange for a payment that has to be made using Bi...

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The advantages this system bestows on the US are enormous. “Reserve currency status” generates huge demand for dollars from governments and companies around the world, as they’re needed for reserves and trade. This has allowed successive American administrations to spend far more, yea...

Dell has become the latest company to accept Bitcoin, the company posted on their website they will now be accepting Bitcoin and providing a 10 % discount on an AlienWare purchase to those using Bitcoin as their payment option (up to $150). From their website: Now you can buy digital ...

BitXatm to Launch 1,000 Bitcoin ATMs in US Germany-based digital currency bitcoin ATM and point-of-sale (POS) solution provider BitXatm has announced a new partnership that will find the company shipping 1,000 units to the US in a bid to build the country’s largest bitcoin ATM network...

Its a big win for the virtual currency community. One of the biggest PC manufacturers on the planet has just opened up to Bitcoin. Dell will now start accepting Bitcoin as payment for all sales made online in the U.S. The company has partnered with Coinbase to make this happen. Not on...

The BitLicense draft crafted by the NYSDFS and its superintendent, Ben Lawsky , is an important milestone for Bitcoin. The proposals represent yet another step towards widespread adoption of virtual currencies, and the standardization they promote in consumer protection, financial tra...

While there is a lot of argument about exactly how much influence the financial industry, especially the banks, has on the United States and other governments, there is little argument that they have more influence than any other special interest group. The 2012 Presidential race saw ...

. This is intended for open discussions of all things related to emerging crypto-currencies including (but not limited to): Bitcoin, Litecoin, Namecoin, NovaCoin, PPCoin, Devcoin, Terracoin, Ripple, ...

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It's tough to accept, but we might be facing the first attempt at seriously enforcing a total ban on all bitcoin transactions. The fact that it will be enforced simultaneously with the introduction of a government-controlled NYCoin just makes it even more dangerous. This is probably t...